Posted on 04/25/2021 4:36:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Nashville police released body camera footage Saturday showing an officer fatally shoot a man who charged at him with two butcher knives during a traffic stop about a potentially stolen vehicle.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said it appeared Officer Christopher Royer was "possibly justified" in shooting the knife-wielding man. He said the officer was left with "no choice" but to shoot after he retreated and asked the indiviudal to drop the weapons several times -- even as the man entered the driver's door of the police car and charged toward the officer.
"No officer wants to encounter these types of situations. It's always the unknown when we respond to calls and he did everything he could. He retreated. He ordered him to put the knives down," Drake said. "This appears to be possibly justified. We'll find out once the investigation moves forward but officers are put in these situations, and it's unfortunate."
Drake also rejected the notion Royer should have used a Taser to deescalate the situation, telling reporters an officer "can't use a less lethal [force] if someone is attacking you with a knife."
Officer Royer was on "routine patrol" just before midnight in the area of Clarksville Pike and Ed Temple Blvd. when he checked the license plate of a white late model Mercedes sedan, police spokesman Don Aaron said at a press conference on Saturday.
The license plate on that Mercedes came back registered to a 1998 green Chevrolet and Officer Royer conducted a vehicle stop to investigate the license plate issue, he said. The driver of the Mercedes saw Officer Royer’s blue lights and stopped at 3236 Clarksville Pike.
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Say, I wonder where you can pick up butcher knife loads for a Smith and Wesson?
Shouldn’t he have called a social worker?? Maybe the perp had a social disease./s
Couldn’t tell what race the guy was from the picture...Anyone Know???
Should have shot in the air to get the guy’s attention.
Do I really need a </s>
Maybe he was walking home from his job as a chef at Benihana.
The perp was dual-wielding?
Unusual.
Why didn’t that bastard cop just shoot the knives out of his hands????
A teacher.
I hear they're REALLY good at disarming people in knife fights.
The cop forgot his trick-shooting mirror...
Any liberals here, might agree with you, without the sarcasm. Joy Behar and some others said police should fire a warning shot, not actually shoot a criminal.
Maybe ask him to turn around so he can shoot Mr. McStabby in the butt like Joyless Behar suggested.
This just in: Marshall College has suspended Indiana Jones from his teaching position.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said it appeared Officer Christopher Royer was “possibly justified” in shooting the knife-wielding man.
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This is the kind of statement you would expect to see in a B-rated movie about an insane police chief!
Harrison Ford had food poisoning when shooting that scene. They were supposed to have another long chase scene but Ford did not think he was up for it. He did that as a joke to get a few minutes rest and the director liked it.
“Why didn’t that bastard cop just shoot the knives out of his hands????”
Indiana Jones had the right approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo
LOL.
Sorry, did not check to see that you had posted that already.
I shot an elephant in my pajamas...
My wife is a teacher at an interesting school
Fights are common. Knife fights are unheard of.
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